Vulgate Bible

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1. A Latin translation of the Bible (see also Bible) made by the scholar Jerome, a saint of the Roman Catholic Church, in the fourth century. This translation was the standard Bible of the Western world until the Reformation. Vulgate comes from a Latin word meaning “common,” because Jerome's translation used the Latin of everyday speech.

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Great in erudition, Cardinal Gasquet had spent 22 years revising the Vulgate Bible, a task for which he wished 50 years.

From Time Magazine Archive

They were separately published in a very small volume without date, each letter being accompanied with appropriate scriptural allusions taken from the Vulgate Bible.

From The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein by Douce, Francis

I have in my possession a rare copy of the Vulgate Bible, in black letter, printed at Lyons, in 1522.

From The Symbolism of Freemasonry by Mackey, Albert G.

In a Vulgate Bible, printed by him in 1544, he uses the A and C of the same alphabet, and also the following letters, with different subjects, viz.

From The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein by Douce, Francis

Among these is the seventh-century MS. of the Vulgate Bible, written by Ceolfrid Abbot of Jarrow.

From Cathedral Cities of Italy by Collins, William Wiehe